The Mattapoisett Community Preservation Committee will be accepting project funding applications for Committee consideration and presentation at the Spring 2024 Annual Town Meeting. The Project Application will be available on the Town Website and in paper form at the Selectmen’s Office on October 12. Submit completed Applications by November 17 to: Mattapoisett Community Preservation Committee, […] Read more »
Mattapoisett Friends Meeting will hold its fall yard sale this Saturday, October 7 from 8:00 to 12:30. The sale, with added merchandise, will continue on Monday from 9:00 to 2:00. Guest vendors will be joining the Friends. There will be a variety of things for sale ranging from estate sale items to pet Halloween costumes. […] Read more »
Rochester’s Library Board of Trustees quickly dispensed with several of its most controversial issues in a stunningly brief meeting on September 28. The board started its meeting in a Senior Center room crowded with area residents by adopting the town’s flag policy (rather than adopting its own), wherein the library will only fly […] Read more »
Barbara Bullock Gee (86) of Marion, MA, a caring wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and friend to many passed away peacefully at home, after a short illness, on September 28, 2023 surrounded by her loving family. Barbara was born in Schenectady, NY on March 14, 1937, the beloved daughter of Boyd and Grace Bullock. […] Read more »
Patricia Stoycos Loucks, 85, died on September 27, 2023 at Homestead Village in Lancaster, PA following a long illness. She was born on May 29, 1938 to the late Marshall and Eleanor Ross in Mattapoisett, MA, the small and beautiful coastal town where she grew up. She was a graduate of Chatham College in Pittsburgh, […] Read more »
Dannie Engwert is a professional card maker who has distributed her work in Japan, at Harrod’s in England and all over the United States. Dannie is a fiber artist who turned to collage card making to use up scraps of fabric. She has been making cards for the last 20 years. Dannie will share her […] Read more »
This autumn, the Mattapoisett Museum at 5 Church Street will have a variety of interesting programming, both on-site and around town, including four walking tours in October and November to explore special and historic sites in town that have intriguing stories to tell. The goal of this walking tour series is to acquaint participants with […] Read more »
The Marion Open Space Acquisition Commission had a special meeting on Tuesday to object to the work of a local developer and to ask for notice as an abutter to the proposed work taking place at the intersection of Mill and Spring Streets. MOSAC Chairman John Rockwell referenced a letter he wrote about […] Read more »
The house pictured here is currently the home of Skip Mull, but it has an interesting history. Its story starts with Calvin Chaddock who was the 3rd Pastor of the North Rochester Church and also Principal of an Academy (an academy was much like today’s high schools and offered education beyond the simple math and […] Read more »
Please join us for a fall Welcome Walk at the new Alves-Bucciarelli Preserve. Mattapoisett Land Trust acquired this new preserve in 2022, and we have spent the last year cleaning up and reimagining this riverfront preserve. Come see how things have turned out and take a walk at the new Preserve. Park on the […] Read more »